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J. P. ADAMS. WATER OLOSET SUPPLY APPARATUS. No. 382,128; A Patented May 1. 188.8. A

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WATER CLOSET SUPPLY APPARATUS,

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Patnted May 1,.1888.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN P. ADAMS, OF CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS.

WATER-CLOSET-SUPPLY' APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 382,128, dated May 1, 1388. Application filedAngust 12,1887. Serial No. 246.764. (No model.)

Toall whom it may concern..-

Be it known that I, JOHN P. ADAMS, of Cambridge, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Water-Closet-Supply Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to supply-apparatus or tanks and valves for water-closets,and particularlyto that class or kind of'such contrivances which are adapted to deliver a limited quan tity of water to the bowl each time that the valve is operated.

My invention will first be described in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, forming a part of this specification, and then be pointed out in'the claims.

Of the drawings, in which the same letters of reference indicate the same parts, Figure 1 represents a longitudinal vertical section of a tank fully equipped with appliances constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a sectional View on the line m m of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a sectional view similar to Fig. 1, showing a slightly-modified form of the siphon or overflow pipe and .representing the valve as in opened instead of closed position. Figs. 4, 5, 6, and 7 show sectional views of modified forms of devices for holding the valve propped or supported in open position until a .predetcrmined amount of water has been drawn from the tank or compartment in which the valve is located. Fig. 8 exhibits a modified arrangement of the float andmeans for supportingthe same, whereby-the ball or supply cock is operated, as hereinbefore mentioned. Fig. 9 is a sectional detail view on the line to w of Fig. 3. Fig.10 is a modified view of means for weighting and adj nsting the weight for depressing'the valve. Fig. 11 is a detail view of means for regulating the size of the communicating-port between the main and supplemental tanks.

In the drawings, A represents a tank; B, a ball or supply cock; 0, a float; D, a rod connecting the float with the ball-cock. These parts may be of common construction and arrangement, except as hereinafter noted.

The tank A is divided into a main compartment, a, and a supplemental compart ment, b, the division being effected by a pan tition, c. The supplemental compartment is provided with an outlet port or pipe, d, and

the partition 0 with a port, e, providing for communication betweenthe main and supplementaltanks. This communicating-port e is very considerably smaller than the outlet-port d, so that if the latter should be opened the water in the supplemental tank would be exhausted very much sooner than the water in the main tank a, and if said port at should be closed the supplemental tank would be filled from the main tank through the communicating-port e. The sizeor extentof the communieating-port may be regulated by a slide or gate, 0, as represented in Fig. 11, though this construction is not essential, since the slide or gate 6 may be dispensed with, as shown in Figs. 1 and 8.

f represents a valve for opening and closing the outlet-port d, and gan overfiow-pipe which may be constructed to act also as a siphon, the arm 9 of which pipe, when the same is constructed to actas asiphon, is provided with a port, gfilocated at any desired point, preferably slightly above the valve f, as shown in Fig. 2, so that if the valve should be opened,

so as to start a flow of water through the outlet-port and be then closed, the water in the supplemental tank would be drawn off through the overfiow or siphon pipe until lowered to a point orline corresponding with the port 9', when the siphon action would cease and the supplemental tank be refilled through the communicating port e. This same siphoning action will take place if the supplemental tank should fill to the top of the siphon-pipe g, so.

Z ofthe valve to hold it open, as stated. The.

other arm, n, of said lever is adapted to be operated upon either directly or indirectly by theoutfiowing water to cause the arm j to act as described. In Figs. 3 and 9 I have shown said arm n as constructed as a flat tongue, sothat if the valve were raised,raising the rod q, passing through a hole formed in a lug or projectiomp, on the valve, and said rod were immediately released, the water flowing through the outlet-port and acting on the arm m of lever It will hold said lever in the position represented in Fig. 3, propping or maintaining the valve in open position until the weight of the water on arm n is overcome by the gravity of the valve f, when the latter will fall to its. seat, as represented in Fig. 2. The nut or nuts r on the lower end of rod q effect the raising of the valve, and said rod being unobstructed abovesaid nuts, provision is made for the rod to be lowered or depressed through the hole inthe lug or-extension p of thevalve without affecting the position of the latter. In the-construction just described the siphon-pipe may be provided at its upper end with holes-or vents 0v 0, as shown in Fig. 3, which construction will operate to admit air slowly to the, overflow pipe and outlet -port and thus avoid the hissing, roaring, and disagreeable sucking noise which would attend the operation of'the device if the overflow pipe were a singlestraight pipe-and fully open at its upper end.

The valvefmay be weighted and the position of its weight regulated,soas to cause said valve tofall to its seat sooner or later, as may be desired, by attaching an outwardly-extend ing arm, 8, to the valve, asrepresented in Figs. 1 and 2, and so securing a weight, t, to said arm as to be adj ustablein position thereon, or said arm 8 might be extended through the pivot or journal pin 1' of the lever h, as indicated in Fig. 10, and a weight placed on bothor but one end of said arm.

In Fig. 4z I have shown the-lever h as made angular in form, so that thevalve f may be so arranged as that, when it is seated, to be-in a more nearly horizontal position than in theconstruotion represented in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, and to be pivoted tothe outlet-pipe at the lowest point of said valve instead of the highest.

In Fig. 5-the valve is shown as hinged and seated in a manner similar to that shown in Fig. 3; but the arm n is depressed by the ao- Y to thisspecification,in the presenceof two subtion of the water on a disk, y, arranged in thethroat of the outlet-port d, said 'disk being connected with the arm nof lever hby means of a link, w.

By the construction shown in Fig. G arm-j of lever h is adapted to operate more lightly said disk y being connected with said arm h by means of a link, 00'.

In Fig. 7 I have represented a construction in which the valve may be arranged in a horizontal position, so as to rise and fall vertically. In this form of the invention two levers, k, may be pivoted on a common pivot or journal pin, a, and be provided on their upper ends with bowls or trundle-rollers z, toact against the face of the valve. In this instance the levers h each operate in much the same manner and have much the same construction otherwise than as described in- Figs. 2 and 3.

I preferto arrange the float O in the supplementalchamber b, as shown in Fig. 8,curving the rod D over the partition 0, so that as the. water is quickly drawn off from said supplemental chamber in any manner said float may quickly rise-and fall, so as in like way to open and close ball or supply cock B. s

It is: obvious that changes may be made in the formand arrangement of parts constituting the invention without departing from the nature or spirit thereof.

I claim- 1. In a tank for water cl'osets,having an outlet-port, combined witha valve [or opening and closing said port, and a lever pivoted in the mouth or throat of the outlet-port, one arm of said lever acting against the valve and the other extending into the water-way or throat of theoutlet-port, substantially ashereinbefore set forth.

2. A tank for water-closets, having a main and supplemental compartment, an outlet-port in the supplemental compartment, a valve to open and close said outlet-port, a port commua lever pivoted in the mouth or throat of the Y outlet-port, one arm of said lever acting against the valve and the other extending into the water-way or throat of the outlet-port, substantially as hereinbefore set forth.

In testimony whereof Ihave signed my name scribing witnesses, this 6th day of August,1887.

. JOHN P. ADAMS. Witnesses:

ARTHUR W. O'RossLEY, C. F. BROWN.

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